FOCUS AND SCOPE

NYIMAK: Journal of Communication serves as a premier, high-impact intellectual platform for international academics, researchers, and advanced practitioners dedicated to examining contemporary communicative phenomena, global media transformations, and rigorous theoretical advancements. The journal prioritizes original, empirically driven research articles that offer substantial contributions to the field. However, exemplary, high-quality conceptual reviews, critical meta-analyses, and methodological innovations addressing urgent global communication issues are also highly welcomed.

Global Mandate & Scientific Rigor: As an international journal, NYIMAK invites scholarly contributions from academics worldwide. To meet our high standards of global relevance, all submissions must demonstrate broader theoretical, methodological, or practical implications that resonate beyond a single localized context. While we highly welcome robust empirical studies based on local, regional, or national data, authors must explicitly discuss how their findings expand, challenge, or contribute to the global academic discourse in communication sciences. Purely descriptive studies of localized events or case studies that lack a comparative framework, critical evaluation, or broader global conceptualization will be discouraged and subject to immediate desk rejection.

To foster cutting-edge scholarly discourse, NYIMAK invites submissions that address complex dynamics within the following core thematic scopes (but are not limited to):

  • Digital Media & Critical Technology Culture: Critical investigations into social media dynamics, algorithmic cultures, platform governance and policy, artificial intelligence (AI) in communication, digital inequalities, datafication, and advanced human-computer interaction (HCI).

  • Strategic Communication & Public Relations: Theoretical and empirical analyses of corporate diplomacy, institutional trust-building, crisis and risk communication, reputation management, brand identity construction, and public interest advocacy within polarized digital ecosystems.

  • Political Communication & Journalism: Rigorous examinations of media freedom, political campaigning, state-media relations, public opinion dynamics, algorithmic propaganda, alternative media, investigative journalism in transitional societies, and the socio-political impact of misinformation/disinformation frameworks.

  • Intercultural & Global Communication: Decolonial and post-colonial communication frameworks, transnational migration discourses, cross-cultural conflicts and negotiation, global media flows, and the intersection of localization and globalization (glocalization) in communication practices.